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Word Up

theodp writes "Depending on your perspective, the National Scrabble Championship is a major sporting event, an unrivalled intellectual competition, or the world's biggest dork-fest. So says Slate's Dan Wachtell, who turned to an anagram-drilling Unix program to gain an edge on the 850+ competitors. While hardly mainstream, competitive Scrabble is getting newfound attention thanks to the publication of Word Freak and release of Word Wars."

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  1. Word up is the codeword... by BlueJay465 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought Cameo was only a one-hit-wonder, until I had the misfortune of seeing that stupid video of Posh Spice, or whoever the hell that was who covered this song last.

    I hereby banish this discussion back to the 80's!